Michael Stonebraker's opinions and claims are always refreshing to read. He's done a lot for our industry and for how we do data processing. Some of his claims are certainly right as well. Here's an interview with him, telling us about his 5 predictions on the future of databases. Of course, him being a software … Continue reading The Crystal Ball. Or, Oops, Michael Stonebraker did it Again
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Column Stores: Teaching an Old Elephant New Tricks
Prof. Michael Stonebraker is a controversial visionary, who is known for nothing less than Ingres, Postgres, Vertica, Streambase, Illustra, VoltDB, SciDB, besides being a renowned MIT professor. My recent blog post about Stonebraker's talk at the EPFL (host university to Prof. Martin Odersky, creator of the Scala Language and Co-Founder of Typesafe) has triggered a very interesting … Continue reading Column Stores: Teaching an Old Elephant New Tricks